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get rid of jared kushner and wrote a statement explaining jared kushner's departure from the white house, a statement that was obviously never used. "wall street journal" reports some of president trump's lawyers earlier this summer concluded that jared kushner should step down as senior white house adviser because of possible legal complications related to a probe of russia's involvement in the 2016 presidential election. and aired concerns about him to the president and listen to this sourcing, people familiar with the matter said after some members of the legal team aired their concerns to mr. trump in june including at least one meeting in the white house, press aides to the legal team began to prepare for the possibility that mr. kushner would step down. drafting a statement explaining his departure and, again, listen to the sourcing, said people familiar with the matter. some of mr. trump's attorneys worried that the continued employment carried risks to involve other white house officials, a person familiar with the matter said. if, for example, mr. kushner mentioned the probe eve
get rid of jared kushner and wrote a statement explaining jared kushner's departure from the white house, a statement that was obviously never used. "wall street journal" reports some of president trump's lawyers earlier this summer concluded that jared kushner should step down as senior white house adviser because of possible legal complications related to a probe of russia's involvement in the 2016 presidential election. and aired concerns about him to the president and listen to...
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kushner may be better for jared kushner but everybody in the white house if he went back to new york and got out of the white house, because of, of a lot of things that have gone on since the transition. >> well, never mind what mueller is probing about jared kushner, just the public paper trail of jared kushner in 669 madson avenue, the building he paid too much for, he has been trying to refinance for some time now. that's just one item. the other item is, you know, who has he spoken to about these difficulties from the meeting with donald judgment trump jr., with the woman from russia, to talking to the president when he was president. i mean, what is going on here? everybody having to lawyer up after they talked to jared kushner? >> i mean, harold, he's not good at disclosure, disclosure forms, not with people he's met, with financial stakes he has in things. he's been very sloppy and in part because everybody was shock thad they won and donald trump basically said here, charge everything, go off here, charge the world, you are in charge of redoing government. are you in charge o
kushner may be better for jared kushner but everybody in the white house if he went back to new york and got out of the white house, because of, of a lot of things that have gone on since the transition. >> well, never mind what mueller is probing about jared kushner, just the public paper trail of jared kushner in 669 madson avenue, the building he paid too much for, he has been trying to refinance for some time now. that's just one item. the other item is, you know, who has he spoken to...
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do you make of this effort to get jared kushner. >> i think it's clear that steve bannon has jared kushner in his sights and that's what he's doing when he's talking about calling the comey firing one of the biggest political blurnds in modern political history. he's talking about jared kushner the weekend they decided to fire comey. he's laying that at the feet of the president's son-in-law. as far as who is in the legal team and the story that we reported tonight, there was some conflict, some disagreement among the attorneys a few months back about whether or not kushner should stay on and that's because they saw this investigation tightening and there was some concerns about the things that kushner had done. now, they were not all in agreement on that and i don't know that it's permanent with these attorneys so much as it is with steve bannon who worked in this white house and came, you know, to argue and fight with kushner quite a bit. but with these attorneys, the concern was preserving the administration, keeping their case as strong as they could be, and they had some serious conce
do you make of this effort to get jared kushner. >> i think it's clear that steve bannon has jared kushner in his sights and that's what he's doing when he's talking about calling the comey firing one of the biggest political blurnds in modern political history. he's talking about jared kushner the weekend they decided to fire comey. he's laying that at the feet of the president's son-in-law. as far as who is in the legal team and the story that we reported tonight, there was some...
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you see the president getting behind jared kushner but if not jared kushner and ivanka, then who else? sort of an obvious person for the president to display his loyalty towards. >> well yeah. it's unclear if he is disemploying displayin displaying -- it sounds like the people leaking the stuff about the lawyers suggesting that jared kushner leaf the white house probably -- if you want to be kremlinologist about this, this is coming from the bannon camp, another in the longer chapter of bannon v kushner playing out for many months now going back to when bannon was in the white house. again, it is unclear -- i was listening to sarah sanders' comments earlier and they really did throw the kitchen sink at comey before. the question is, are they protecting jared kushner because apparently bannon was suggesting that maybe kushner was behind the firing. it's all very strange. it also sort of brings the story back to these very convoluted questions of why they fired him in the first place. >> bannon goes on 60 minutes in a barely veiled swipe at jared kushner tells charlie rose he should ask
you see the president getting behind jared kushner but if not jared kushner and ivanka, then who else? sort of an obvious person for the president to display his loyalty towards. >> well yeah. it's unclear if he is disemploying displayin displaying -- it sounds like the people leaking the stuff about the lawyers suggesting that jared kushner leaf the white house probably -- if you want to be kremlinologist about this, this is coming from the bannon camp, another in the longer chapter of...
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kushner, the jared kushner legal team. i was told con temp rainiously they wanted to purse t up a wal between the president and kushner and the advice to the president from kasowitz was he needed to stop talking about the russian investigation with jared kushner. the story from "the wall street journal" yesterday takes this even further. saying that they recommended -- that jared kushner no longer work inside the west wing and that the outside press shop is the way i read that story. it's mark curalo apparently drafted a statement apparently for him to leave. i think we need to make very clear my understanding is the suggestion that he would leave was never taken seriously or, to my knowledge, seriously discussed at the top levels of the white house. >> all right, katie, we have to remind people that jared kushner has denied any collusion whatsoever. but from senior advisers i speak to inside the white house when they describe jared, they said he is so dangerous because he doesn't know what he doesn't know. what could be i
kushner, the jared kushner legal team. i was told con temp rainiously they wanted to purse t up a wal between the president and kushner and the advice to the president from kasowitz was he needed to stop talking about the russian investigation with jared kushner. the story from "the wall street journal" yesterday takes this even further. saying that they recommended -- that jared kushner no longer work inside the west wing and that the outside press shop is the way i read that story....
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in a moment, i'll speak live to wall street reporter with news onner jared kushner's legal complications and it will be an interesting complication. first the latest on the aftermath of hurricane irma. the body count is now 53 people killed in this storm. we can tell you 7 million people in the u.s. don't have power. search and rescue units on the ground in the keys. officials say a quarter of all homes in that area have been destroyed. let's get right to it from the florida keys. nbc's gadi schwartz. what's the latest? >> reporter: hey, it's not just search and rescue on the ground. it is out in the ocean as well. they'll check submerged boats and submerged sail boats in particular to see if people are inside. a lot of those are live aboard boats so they may be people inside who tried to ride out the zone. we're in an area that took one of the biggest hits from hurricane irma. these are one of the weird peculiarities. first of all, the ocean is this way. so hurricane irma came ashore this way. which has been puzzling the neighbors. this mobile home was sitting about 20, 30 feet over the
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how loyal is he in your view to jared kushner? >> i don't think donald trump is loyal to anybody ultimately but himself. his family has often been an exception to that rule, and in the white house, jared kushner and ivanka trump are the first among equals, and that predates robert mueller's investigation. and jared kushner is a liability to the president in the course of the investigation. we know from "the wall street journal"'s reporting, his attorneys considered ejecting kushner from the white house a few months ago because of concerns that he was a legal liability. i think that's going to continue to be a problem. the temp you referenced earlier saying there was no collision or business deals discussed. let's remember at one of his meetings brokered by the russian ambassador, michael flynn attended that meeting with him, and if michael flynn was under surveillance through e-mail or telephone contacts during that time, investigators are going to have information about what took place at those meetings via flynn that ran contrar
how loyal is he in your view to jared kushner? >> i don't think donald trump is loyal to anybody ultimately but himself. his family has often been an exception to that rule, and in the white house, jared kushner and ivanka trump are the first among equals, and that predates robert mueller's investigation. and jared kushner is a liability to the president in the course of the investigation. we know from "the wall street journal"'s reporting, his attorneys considered ejecting...
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jared kushner's a richer version of that. he's in his early 30s. and also has had a limited view of what has to happen. these are not direct correlations to the kind of problems they have to solve. >> but if the recipe for success inside the white house is serving at the pleasure of the president and pleasing the president -- >> they are going to do very well. >> that is what they do. but i take you back to steve bannon's interview with "60 minutes" the other day. while you can see john mccain on tv cleverly saying i'm not going to comment on what steve bannon has to say, the question is how right is steve bannon? how much influence does he have still on the president? steve bannon was very clear and smirking when he said what a bad idea it was for the president to fire james comey. >> in modern presidential history. >> guess who knew the president was going to fire comey? on some level he could be laughing on the outside. >> i'm going to use that. >>> stand by, everyone. we're looking at irma's devastation in the caribbean. dozens have died from t
jared kushner's a richer version of that. he's in his early 30s. and also has had a limited view of what has to happen. these are not direct correlations to the kind of problems they have to solve. >> but if the recipe for success inside the white house is serving at the pleasure of the president and pleasing the president -- >> they are going to do very well. >> that is what they do. but i take you back to steve bannon's interview with "60 minutes" the other day....
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>> there is no comparison between what jared kushner is doing and what hillary contended. she set up a private server said that she did not have to use government email addresses. and then she sent tens of thousands of emails on her private server, then when it was discovered, she deleted tens of thousands of those emails so that government officials could never see that information. that is totally different and what jared kushner has done, he has a personal email address fewer than 100 emails -- the business has gone to over the last eight months. he has a white house email address. that is what he uses for the business. that is a total different situation. >> heather: the statement from jared kushner's attorneys has fewer than 100 emails have been between january-august. they were either sent or received from colleagues in the white house from his personal email account. obviously this was at the beginning of the transition. max, at least part of it was. it does that make a difference to you? >> it is not quite accurate to say it is completely different. it is not entir
>> there is no comparison between what jared kushner is doing and what hillary contended. she set up a private server said that she did not have to use government email addresses. and then she sent tens of thousands of emails on her private server, then when it was discovered, she deleted tens of thousands of those emails so that government officials could never see that information. that is totally different and what jared kushner has done, he has a personal email address fewer than 100...
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., paul manafort, then the campaign chairman, and jared kushner and now a white house adviser. in an initial statement, trump jr. explained he and the russian lawyer primarily discussed a program about the adoption of russian children. it was only after he released e-mail, and i quote the e-mail here, some officials documents and information that would incriminate hillary in her dealings with russia. framed as part of russia and its government support for mr. trump, to which trump jr. responded if it is what you say, i love it, especially later in the summer. later in the summer, the hacked e-mails would be made public. according to white house, the president himself waited on that initial misleading statement about adoptions released by don jr. and now nbc news reports that the special counsel's team is investigating whether the president was trying to hide the real purpose of the trump tower meeting. in their efforts to down play the meeting, both the president and his son have emphasized that kushner left after a few minutes and manafort was said to be on his phone the whole
., paul manafort, then the campaign chairman, and jared kushner and now a white house adviser. in an initial statement, trump jr. explained he and the russian lawyer primarily discussed a program about the adoption of russian children. it was only after he released e-mail, and i quote the e-mail here, some officials documents and information that would incriminate hillary in her dealings with russia. framed as part of russia and its government support for mr. trump, to which trump jr. responded...
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. >> when representing president trump wanted jared kushner to step down as an adviser. "the wall street journal" cites, some on the legal team worried of complications from the special counsel's russia probe. the concerns with kushner during the campaign and transition period. some are examined by federal investigators and congress. also included, contacts with with foreign officials from the security clearance form, which he amended twice. there was a concern over the spread of risk, if kushner mentioned the probe, even casually, aides could face inquiries from mueller's agents. kushner might discuss the probe without a lawyer present. they drafted a statement to explain kushner's resignation but john dowd said he thought the proposal absurd and never, to his knowledge, taken to the president. marc kasowitz on it said i never discussed that jared kushner should step down from his position at the white house and i am not aware any other lawyer for the president made such a recommendation. ty cobb called the story false. he tells nbc news jared kushner, who denied collus
. >> when representing president trump wanted jared kushner to step down as an adviser. "the wall street journal" cites, some on the legal team worried of complications from the special counsel's russia probe. the concerns with kushner during the campaign and transition period. some are examined by federal investigators and congress. also included, contacts with with foreign officials from the security clearance form, which he amended twice. there was a concern over the spread...
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he's not taking ivanka or jared kushner to china. is that related to this or is john kelly, the chief of staff finally getting control of reality in the white house saying mr. president, you've got to stop hanging around with their family of yours. they're causing you trouble. >> i think john kelly could be putting separations. but i don't think president trump is saying i want you guys to stay away. >> how come they're not going to china with him? do you know? who knows why they're not going? >> because it's dangerous. >> i don't often read this newspaper. the south china morning post. ivanka trump and jared kushner's trip to china may have been canceled because some officials in the white house decided the couple were not suitable to make preparations for u.s. president donald trump's visit to beijing. >> they sent this guy to negotiate middle east paseace. >> the south china morning did report that. what do you make of it? this is going to bug trump. >> ivanka trump has her own fashion line and there's issues with that in china. t
he's not taking ivanka or jared kushner to china. is that related to this or is john kelly, the chief of staff finally getting control of reality in the white house saying mr. president, you've got to stop hanging around with their family of yours. they're causing you trouble. >> i think john kelly could be putting separations. but i don't think president trump is saying i want you guys to stay away. >> how come they're not going to china with him? do you know? who knows why they're...
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could that in and of itself put jared kushner in some sort of legal jeopardy? >> i think it's a difficult time to be white house counsel. it's a demanding job under any circumstance and it's a demanding job under any circumstances. if there's an investigation of what went on during a campaign and so many people who were involved with the campaign go into the white house, and a part of government service, and are working together, it gets very hard to separate out the investigation into the campaign with what's going on in the white house. and any white house counsel would be concerned if there were communications going on between the president and someone who was under investigation. well, if that someone happens to be a family relative, like a son-in-law, it gets very, very difficult to separate those strands out. but it would be understandable if a white house counsel did not want to be serving in the white house anyone who was under investigation. >> does the white house counsel enjoy attorney/client privilege with donald trump? can he be made to talk to rob
could that in and of itself put jared kushner in some sort of legal jeopardy? >> i think it's a difficult time to be white house counsel. it's a demanding job under any circumstance and it's a demanding job under any circumstances. if there's an investigation of what went on during a campaign and so many people who were involved with the campaign go into the white house, and a part of government service, and are working together, it gets very hard to separate out the investigation into...
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you look at the meeting between jared kushner and the russian banker. at that point jared didn't know whether he was going to be in the white house or whether he was going to stay in new york. so maybe he's just human and thinking well, if i don't go into the white house, maybe i can get money from this guy, or if i go into the white house, maybe i can -- again, they were just winging it. that doesn't make it okay. in fact, it causes greater concern. you look at rex tillerson. rex tillerson was ceo of the largest company on the planet. he has a few dollars to his name. you don't hear stories about that from rex tillerson, because rex tillerson hasn't spent his entire life winging it. pushing the envelope at every single turn. that's what donald trump has done. that's what donald trump is doing, and that's why donald trump is going to face a lot of really uncomfortable questions from robert mueller. anyway, amy, thank you so much for being with us. amy britain. we appreciate your reporting from the washington post. michael warren, thank you as well. we a
you look at the meeting between jared kushner and the russian banker. at that point jared didn't know whether he was going to be in the white house or whether he was going to stay in new york. so maybe he's just human and thinking well, if i don't go into the white house, maybe i can get money from this guy, or if i go into the white house, maybe i can -- again, they were just winging it. that doesn't make it okay. in fact, it causes greater concern. you look at rex tillerson. rex tillerson was...
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>> it's just something that would not be advisable for the president or for jared or for jared kushner. >> if he did something wrong, he did something wrong. if he tells somebody he did something wrong, how does it make that person he tells he did something wrong incriminated. >> it makes that person exposed to questions by the mueller team. >> you're able to report at "the wall street journal," the discussion of getting rid of him as a top staffer in the white house was really not so much because they thought he was tainted goods, may be going to jail, but because they're afraid he might spread a conversation throughout the white house that would require more witnessing? >> that was one of the concerns. there were other concerns including at the time this was raised by some of the president's lawyers they -- there were two meetings that were being examined by the mueller team that concerned kushner and russian officials or russian operatives and there was a third that the attorneys were aware of that had not yet become public and that was the trump tower meeting. >> without giving int
>> it's just something that would not be advisable for the president or for jared or for jared kushner. >> if he did something wrong, he did something wrong. if he tells somebody he did something wrong, how does it make that person he tells he did something wrong incriminated. >> it makes that person exposed to questions by the mueller team. >> you're able to report at "the wall street journal," the discussion of getting rid of him as a top staffer in the white...
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including jared kushner, and ivanka trump. politico reports that many white house lawyers were surprised by the news. several white house officials were using private e-mail. and other white house officials were infuriated by those reports. that no doubt means general kelly, the new white house chief of staff. there are also reports that jared kushner did not tell the senate intelligence committee about his use of private e-mails. even when he met with that committee. that could create serious problems for jared kushner. this afternoon chairman richard burr and vice chairman mark warner sent a letter to jared kushner's defense lawyer asking why the committee learned about this through the news media instead of from jared kushner himself when he spoke to the committee. that's tonight's last word. the 11th hour with brian williams starts now. >> tonight president trump on defense. the white house fights back from criticism on its hurricane response on tax reform and the private air travel of hiss cabinet. speaking of which, ther
including jared kushner, and ivanka trump. politico reports that many white house lawyers were surprised by the news. several white house officials were using private e-mail. and other white house officials were infuriated by those reports. that no doubt means general kelly, the new white house chief of staff. there are also reports that jared kushner did not tell the senate intelligence committee about his use of private e-mails. even when he met with that committee. that could create serious...
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that could create serious problems for jared kushner. this afternoon chairman richard burr and vice chairman mark warner sent a letter to jared kushner's defense lawyer asking why the committee learned about this through the news media instead of from jared kushner himself when he spoke to the committee. that's tonight's last word. the 11th hour with brian williams starts now. >> tonight president trump on defense. the white house fights back from criticism on its hurricane response on tax reform and the private air travel of hiss cabinet. speaking of which, there is more new reporting tonight on more travel by secretary tom price. the cost involved and tonight what price is willing to do about it. and the former commander of hurricane katrina response calls for an evacuation of puerto rico. he says the white house responses like put lg lipstick on a pig. and that is how the 11th hour will get under way on a thursday night. >> good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. day 252 of the trump administration and
that could create serious problems for jared kushner. this afternoon chairman richard burr and vice chairman mark warner sent a letter to jared kushner's defense lawyer asking why the committee learned about this through the news media instead of from jared kushner himself when he spoke to the committee. that's tonight's last word. the 11th hour with brian williams starts now. >> tonight president trump on defense. the white house fights back from criticism on its hurricane response on...
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kushner's spokesperson of all people. one of the things to figure out is how regular, non-trump people will pay for what undoubtedly are expensive legal fees. even not up to the necks in this story, being questioned just as a witness can be a very legally fraught thing. it is a crime to lie to federal investigators even by accident. today, we can report exclusively on an interesting, new poll of public policy polling coming out tomorrow morning in full and reveals public opinion on everything right now from, you know, the health care bill to jimmy kimmel to lots of other stuff, but before that poll coming out in full tomorrow morning, check out a jib let we got. registered voters who say it's inappropriate for the president to use campaign funds to pay the
kushner's spokesperson of all people. one of the things to figure out is how regular, non-trump people will pay for what undoubtedly are expensive legal fees. even not up to the necks in this story, being questioned just as a witness can be a very legally fraught thing. it is a crime to lie to federal investigators even by accident. today, we can report exclusively on an interesting, new poll of public policy polling coming out tomorrow morning in full and reveals public opinion on everything...
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and you are already seeing negative breitbart coverage of jared kushner. on some days if you go to the website you can see all sorts of negative pieces about the president's son-in-law. and that happened before, too. so, i don't know that this is going to make it much worse. i do think that baninfonon is really, really adroit at using the media, even the mainstream media he rails against. >> so is the rez. >> president. >> they're not dissimilar in many ways. there's a reason they get along so well and there's a reason why the president liked having bannon around personally. they do have similar characteristics. >> if he starts criticizing outside the white house what's going on inside the white house, president trump will only tolerate that for so long. >> that's right. the comey piece, again, this is not some minor policy dispute we're talking about. we're talking about an issue that will define this presidency in one way or another for a long time, if not forever. and so the idea that the former chief strategist is publicly criticizing it now, i cannot
and you are already seeing negative breitbart coverage of jared kushner. on some days if you go to the website you can see all sorts of negative pieces about the president's son-in-law. and that happened before, too. so, i don't know that this is going to make it much worse. i do think that baninfonon is really, really adroit at using the media, even the mainstream media he rails against. >> so is the rez. >> president. >> they're not dissimilar in many ways. there's a reason...
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and jared kushner using personal so swing by your local walgreens today. walgreens. at the corner of happy & healthy. but he hasoke up wwork to do.in. so he took aleve. if he'd taken tylenol, he'd be stopping for more pills right now. only aleve has the strength to stop tough pain for up to 12 hours with just one pill. aleve. all day strong. can we at least analyze can we push the offer online? legacy technology can handcuff any company. but "yes" is here. the new app will go live monday? yeah. with hewlett-packard enterprise, we're transforming the way we work. with the right mix of hybrid it, everything computes. itthe power of nexium 24hr protection from frequent heartburn. all day, and all night. now packed into a pill so small, we call it mini. new clearminis from nexium 24hr. see heartburn differently. today, smart planning is pushing the finger lakes forward. we're the number one dairy and apple producers in the eastern united states. supported by innovative packaging that extends the shelf life of foods. and infrastructure upgrades that help us share our prod
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and how did an e-mail frankster get the best of jared kushner's lawyer. that's next. >>> presentation that the twitter team made to the senate intel staff today was deeply disappointing. >> vice chairman of the senate intel committee mark warner looking into the role facebook and twitter plead in the 2016 presidential election. warner was unhappy after meeting with executives. however a clear picture is emerging of how russia used facebook to sway the election. joining me now, the co-writer of that article. so what exactly did the russians do on facebook and how were they able to get away with it? >> we're learning a lot more about what the russians did during the 2016 election in terms of the kinds of ads that they purchased in order to exploit racial divisions and tensions and to boost third-party candidates, you know, for example like jill stein. their goal really it seems was just to sow chaos and a hostile environment that would make people fight essentially. you saw a lot of ads being purchased had to do with black lives matter. a had to do with boo
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they didn't recommend jared kushner should step down and at this point he is still in his position. what sort of trouble could we see down the road for the trump administration? do you think there's trouble for them. >> no, i don't think there's trouble, especially for look, a lawyer's job is to certainly advise their clients and to be overly caution, to give them all different options in this particular case i'm certain if that was the only option that was given jared would certainly not be there. i mean, he has been very low under the radar doing his job effectively. he just got back present the middle east taking care of looking at palestine/ israel relationship, obviously to have better piece and better relationship with us as l well. so he certainly is doing his job. a lot of folks don't know. he's not taking a salary. he is doing the best that he possibly can. i think he is very genuine of how he is handling business and he's certainly not been implicated on anything at all. the president ran on this platform of being a businessman. he has to surrender himself with the best pe
they didn't recommend jared kushner should step down and at this point he is still in his position. what sort of trouble could we see down the road for the trump administration? do you think there's trouble for them. >> no, i don't think there's trouble, especially for look, a lawyer's job is to certainly advise their clients and to be overly caution, to give them all different options in this particular case i'm certain if that was the only option that was given jared would certainly not...
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and jared kushner was present. what does jared kushner remember about the president sculpting a story that wasn't entirely true? >> carol leoning, thank you very much. >>> at the heart of the largely unverified, at least in independent terms, steel dossier, was the idea russia interfered in the 2016 election on trump's behalf in exchange or seeking out some kind of favorable policy outcome. now a secret russian document obtained by buzz feed sheds light on just what outcome the russian government may have been seeking. reporter john hutson got his hands on a kremlin proposal for a broad reset with trump, offering up the full normalization of relations between the united states and russia across all major branches of government. buzz feed's john hutson is with me now. what can you tell me about the scope of what this document sketches out and what was ever proposed? >> this is a massive reset. it goes across diplomatic, military, and economic channels. and it really seeks to turn back the clock from before the syria
and jared kushner was present. what does jared kushner remember about the president sculpting a story that wasn't entirely true? >> carol leoning, thank you very much. >>> at the heart of the largely unverified, at least in independent terms, steel dossier, was the idea russia interfered in the 2016 election on trump's behalf in exchange or seeking out some kind of favorable policy outcome. now a secret russian document obtained by buzz feed sheds light on just what outcome the...
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why they consider jared kushner a potential legal liability. >> take a look at the people waiting to see hillary clinton at her book signing as she takes new shots at president trump and even one at his daughter, ivanka. stay with us. you do all this research on a perfect car, then smash it into a tree. your insurance company raises your rates. maybe you should've done more research on them. for drivers with accident forgiveness, liberty mutual won't raise your rates due to your first...
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how about his drowning in debt son-in-law, jared kushner? and what about paul manafort, who was doing millions of dollars in cash business in countries like ukraine? if there is a crime in paul manafort's tax returns, robert mueller, with the help of the criminal investigations unit of the irs, is going to find that crime. but a tax crime is the one thing that robert mueller does not have a free hand in prosecuting. he will need the approval of the assistant attorney general for the tax division. that is one of the hundreds and hundreds of jobs that donald trump and his administration's incompetence have not fielded. on tuesday, donald trump pretended that not filling those jobs had nothing to do with his relentless incompetence. it was all part of the grand plan. we are not looking to fill all of those positions. don't need many of them. reduce size of government. of course not filling the jobs with trump appointees does not mean that those jobs are empty because those jobs are all occupied by someone. and so the acting assistant attorney g
how about his drowning in debt son-in-law, jared kushner? and what about paul manafort, who was doing millions of dollars in cash business in countries like ukraine? if there is a crime in paul manafort's tax returns, robert mueller, with the help of the criminal investigations unit of the irs, is going to find that crime. but a tax crime is the one thing that robert mueller does not have a free hand in prosecuting. he will need the approval of the assistant attorney general for the tax...
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kushners is doing everything he can to hurt jared kushner. they are investigating jared kushner. does the special prosecutor's team go, shouldn't -- do they think we should be talking to steve bannon specifically about jared kushner? >> i would suspect that the special counsel's team will talk to everyone about everything and by that i mean they'll talk to all of the available witnesses to get their view of what happened. and then they'll see how those versions line up. and it will be the outlier versions, the details that don't match up. if nine people are in agreement and one person is saying something different, something that, perhaps, is more beneficial to the administration, those people become the littlest zebras, the witnesses that mueller will cull out of the herd because if they have exposure for corruption or perjury or false statements, themselves, it may be possible to flip them and have them testify as to what really happened here. >> and ken, there are reports indicating the really decisive conversations about firing james come
kushners is doing everything he can to hurt jared kushner. they are investigating jared kushner. does the special prosecutor's team go, shouldn't -- do they think we should be talking to steve bannon specifically about jared kushner? >> i would suspect that the special counsel's team will talk to everyone about everything and by that i mean they'll talk to all of the available witnesses to get their view of what happened. and then they'll see how those versions line up. and it will be the...
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we know that this isn't about jared kushner. this goes to donald trump consistently feeling like he is above the law. you know, it's the meeting with the malaysian prime minister or it's, you know, the firing jim comey, that things don't stick to him. and so i think what hillary clinton is saying is look, we've had u.s. intelligence confirmation five different u.s. intelligence agencies confirming that russia interfered. we have amazing coincidences about timing of releases of clinton campaign information to overshadow negative information about donald trump when the "access hollywood" tapes came out, so did a new dump of clinton campaign e-mails. so what hillary clinton i think is saying, is for her, this just feels like too many coincidences, the trump campaign consistently teased out that they were going to have a lot of dump on hillary the same weekend don junior had a meeting with a russian lawyer saying they wanted to give information about hillary clinton. so -- >> kate -- >> it's appropriate for her to say i think there'
we know that this isn't about jared kushner. this goes to donald trump consistently feeling like he is above the law. you know, it's the meeting with the malaysian prime minister or it's, you know, the firing jim comey, that things don't stick to him. and so i think what hillary clinton is saying is look, we've had u.s. intelligence confirmation five different u.s. intelligence agencies confirming that russia interfered. we have amazing coincidences about timing of releases of clinton campaign...
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jared kushner then set up a private e-mail account for the purpose of sending e-mails. this brazen act is outrageous. it is probably not illegal, but it's hypocritical, it's offensive, and it's very discouraging to see. >> the e-mails and all these other issues, the president has been tweeting about just about everything, until yesterday, but puerto rico. with american citizens suffering so grieveously. the president said he's going next weekend, and when there is no electricity and people are in such dire shape remember, that we haven't seen any statements of concern until a tweet yesterday is quite remarkable. >> even that tweet, andrea, was sort of reprehensible. he talked about deaths on wall street. these are 3.5 million u.s. citizens. the fact he's expressed very little sympathy for them and done very little is really extraordinary. by president way, we should send the navy there and helping them, and i would say that's exactly right. >> ron, you have taken on on many emergency actions for the administrations. shouldn't there be an all-points effort now for puerto
jared kushner then set up a private e-mail account for the purpose of sending e-mails. this brazen act is outrageous. it is probably not illegal, but it's hypocritical, it's offensive, and it's very discouraging to see. >> the e-mails and all these other issues, the president has been tweeting about just about everything, until yesterday, but puerto rico. with american citizens suffering so grieveously. the president said he's going next weekend, and when there is no electricity and...
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he relies on jared kushner, trump, not because jared kushner is some kind of genius, because jared kushner is his son-in-law. and loyal to donald trump. that's why he's put in charge of all this stuff. i think that bannon knows that this mistake, which led to the special prosecutor, now could lead to trump's undoing and a lot of that is because of obstruction of justice and the finances. >> speaking of undoing, hillary clinton has published a new book, "what happened," taking a look at all that went down in the election. the white house has a very concise opinion of the book. take a listen to sarah sanders. >> whether or not he's going to read hillary clinton's book, i'm not sure. but i would think that he's pretty well versed on what happened. and i think it's clear to all of america. i think it's sad that after hillary clinton ran one of the most negative campaigns in history and lost, and the last chapter of her public life is going to be now defined by propping up book sales with false and reckless attacks. i think that's a sad way for her to continue. >> sad. matt, you started reading
he relies on jared kushner, trump, not because jared kushner is some kind of genius, because jared kushner is his son-in-law. and loyal to donald trump. that's why he's put in charge of all this stuff. i think that bannon knows that this mistake, which led to the special prosecutor, now could lead to trump's undoing and a lot of that is because of obstruction of justice and the finances. >> speaking of undoing, hillary clinton has published a new book, "what happened," taking a...
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jared kushner -- [ laughter and applause ] jared kushner has more jobs than steve harvey. [ laughter ] he's the white steve harvey. [ laughter ] so how's trump's legal team responding? well, if i were trump, i'm not sure i'd be all that confident in their performance so far. trump's lawyer, ty cobb and that's his real name -- [ laughter ] apparently fell for an email prank last week, when a prankster posing at the white house social media director, dan scavino, emailed him and asked him questions about the russia scandal. and cobb seemed to essentially admit that former trump campaign chairman, paul manafort and former national security advisor, michael flynn, may have broken the law. here's what the prankster, posing as scavino wrote to cobb. and in hindsight, you can tell right away from the tone of this email that it was definitely fake. "i've been really worried recently about the whole russia situation. the white house will be okay, won't it? i love my job and the people i work with. i don't want the dream to end up derailing." [ laughter and applause ] that should have been a d
jared kushner -- [ laughter and applause ] jared kushner has more jobs than steve harvey. [ laughter ] he's the white steve harvey. [ laughter ] so how's trump's legal team responding? well, if i were trump, i'm not sure i'd be all that confident in their performance so far. trump's lawyer, ty cobb and that's his real name -- [ laughter ] apparently fell for an email prank last week, when a prankster posing at the white house social media director, dan scavino, emailed him and asked him...
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and, of course, jared kushner and those e-mails. people keep saying don't get distracted, don't deflect. the president is distracting you. we've got two eyes and 24 hours. >> we cover all those stories and we'll continue to cover the recovery in mexico as well as the devastation that continues from the three hurricanes in the last few weeks. we're staying on puerto rico and the virgin islands and all of those stories. >> i'm stephanie rhule. >> i'm ali velshi. connect with our show at velshi rhule. right now time for "andrea mitchell reports." >> right now on "andrea mitchell reports," new threats. north korea says today the president's red hot rhetoric amounts to a declaration of war as the rogue regime threatens to shoot down u.s. bombers and detonate a hydrogen bomb over the pacific. >> this would be a shocking display of irresponsibility for global health, for stability, for its nonproliferation. >> offensive line. more than 100 nfl players kneel in defiance after president trump demands team owners punish athlete who's protest
and, of course, jared kushner and those e-mails. people keep saying don't get distracted, don't deflect. the president is distracting you. we've got two eyes and 24 hours. >> we cover all those stories and we'll continue to cover the recovery in mexico as well as the devastation that continues from the three hurricanes in the last few weeks. we're staying on puerto rico and the virgin islands and all of those stories. >> i'm stephanie rhule. >> i'm ali velshi. connect with our...
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plus hillary clinton calling out the presidents son-in-law and advisor jared kushner over how he uses his private emails for white house business. whether she's the one to be taking this line of attack and why hillary still appears to be in denial about her own email use. people would stare. psoriasis does that. it was tough getting out there on stage. i wanted to be clear. i wanted it to last. so i kept on fighting. i found something that worked. and keeps on working. now? they see me. see me. see if cosentyx could make a difference for you- cosentyx is proven to help people with moderate to severe plaque psoriasis... ...find clear skin that can last. don't use if you're allergic to cosentyx. before starting cosentyx, you should be checked for tuberculosis. an increased risk of infections and lowered ability to fight them may occur. tell your doctor if you have an infection or symptoms. or if you have received a vaccine or plan to. if you have inflammatory bowel disease, tell your doctor if symptoms develop or worsen. serious allergic reactions may occur. never give up. see me. see m
plus hillary clinton calling out the presidents son-in-law and advisor jared kushner over how he uses his private emails for white house business. whether she's the one to be taking this line of attack and why hillary still appears to be in denial about her own email use. people would stare. psoriasis does that. it was tough getting out there on stage. i wanted to be clear. i wanted it to last. so i kept on fighting. i found something that worked. and keeps on working. now? they see me. see me....
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how frustrated right now are the congressional committees with jared kushner? >> the problem is that when stuff like this comes out, that he had an account and that they didn't know about it, they assume the worst case scenario. they assume that there are things that they don't have. so of course they're going to get rile upped about it. kushner's lawyer says there's nothing to be seen there. >> but kushner's lawyers have said things and it's turned out not to be true. >> even inside the white house i've been told that the white house counsel was explicit with these folks about not using the personal e-mail accounts. they knew the problem of hillary clinton. they knew what a central issue this was to the trump campaign. they warned them over and over again. now they're confronting it again. >> what are the feelings? the rules don't apply to them? >> i'd hate to guess what they're feeling, but they didn't follow the rules. >> got it. michael schmidt, good to see you in person. >> thanks for having me. >> joining us now is connecticut democratic congressman jim h
how frustrated right now are the congressional committees with jared kushner? >> the problem is that when stuff like this comes out, that he had an account and that they didn't know about it, they assume the worst case scenario. they assume that there are things that they don't have. so of course they're going to get rile upped about it. kushner's lawyer says there's nothing to be seen there. >> but kushner's lawyers have said things and it's turned out not to be true. >> even...
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but let's remember, the president and jared has always seen a little bit of himself in jared kushner. he inherited a family business from his father from outer bureaus, queens, brooklyn. jared kushner sort of did the same with his father, coming from new jersey, made the big bold gamble in manhattan with this building. there are certainly people within the white house, he certainly has his foes within the white house. some of them have now departed, but this is something where the president was going to push to have jared and ivanka in the white house. >> i don't know why this is such a big deal. i do think it's a lesson in that when you bring people into your administration, particularly family members, every business connection that you have is going to be subject to much, much greater scrutiny. and every business decision is going to be really evaluated instead of through a business lens, through a political lens. that's part of the price that you pay of the but other than that, here is a real estate firm, family owned that owns a very big pensive believe in manhattan. they bought
but let's remember, the president and jared has always seen a little bit of himself in jared kushner. he inherited a family business from his father from outer bureaus, queens, brooklyn. jared kushner sort of did the same with his father, coming from new jersey, made the big bold gamble in manhattan with this building. there are certainly people within the white house, he certainly has his foes within the white house. some of them have now departed, but this is something where the president was...
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we have a statement from kushner's lawyer who insists that jared kushner uses his white house e-mail address to conduct white house business but lowell went on to say fewer than 100 e-mails were sent to or returned by mr. kushner to colleagues in the white house from his personal e-mail account. usually forwarded news articles or political commentary and usually occurred when someone initiated the exchange. so kushner's lawyer saying there is no story here really. there is nothing that was bad going on here. it is important to note that this was a private account. you will remember during the example candidate trump spent a lot of time bashing hillary clinton over this private server issue often trying to raise questions about credibility by suggesting the use of a private server showed she was trying to hide something. this is a private e-mail account. still it is odd given the level of focus on the idea that hillary clinton wasn't using government accounts and government system to conduct this business. it's odd to see a senior white house official even send whether only 100 e-mail
we have a statement from kushner's lawyer who insists that jared kushner uses his white house e-mail address to conduct white house business but lowell went on to say fewer than 100 e-mails were sent to or returned by mr. kushner to colleagues in the white house from his personal e-mail account. usually forwarded news articles or political commentary and usually occurred when someone initiated the exchange. so kushner's lawyer saying there is no story here really. there is nothing that was bad...
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charlie: do you deny the you , jared kushner, and others their globalists? that is your term of contempt for them. yes? steve: it is not a term of contempt at all. charlie: you believe that those people, in a sense, are working against the president. the people the president wants at his side you believe, because they are globalists and believe in globalization -- steve: they believe the president's program could be better put forth by having it more in tune with the globalist financial arrangements we have today. they believe that to the core of their big -- being. some work they have done is positive. particularly in the middle east. what jared kushner did before the saudi trip with the uae, saudi arabia and 55 nations has never been done in american history. was speech trump made because of what jared kushner did on day one. charlie: what about mcmaster? steve: we cannot be more diversion on our views. charlie: one thing you go back to, a constant drumbeat of criticism of the president's national security adviser. is that serving the president? steve: abs
charlie: do you deny the you , jared kushner, and others their globalists? that is your term of contempt for them. yes? steve: it is not a term of contempt at all. charlie: you believe that those people, in a sense, are working against the president. the people the president wants at his side you believe, because they are globalists and believe in globalization -- steve: they believe the president's program could be better put forth by having it more in tune with the globalist financial...
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jared kushner initially left the meeting off his security clearance application and mike flynn left it off the applicati application, steve bannon, we don't know yet but working on it. beyond the secrecy about this, the fact it has not been disclosed until now, here is another really acute problem about what buzz feed just reported. democrats on the house oversight and foreign affairs committee reported on wednesday morning this week that another thing mike flynn failed to initially disclose was that he was a paid agent working to advance a business proposition to partner with among other companies, russian nuclear and security companies in order to do this gigantic multi hundreds of millions of dollars project that would build nuclear reactors in the middle east. most of them would be in saudi arabia, which yes, floats on the sea of oil so question mark about nuclear power anyway. also in the nation of jordan. so congressional democrats on wednesday released this information they said shows that mike flynn was involved in that project being paid to advance that nuclear project includi
jared kushner initially left the meeting off his security clearance application and mike flynn left it off the applicati application, steve bannon, we don't know yet but working on it. beyond the secrecy about this, the fact it has not been disclosed until now, here is another really acute problem about what buzz feed just reported. democrats on the house oversight and foreign affairs committee reported on wednesday morning this week that another thing mike flynn failed to initially disclose...
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she certainly did seem to knock down the notion that there was this conversation about jared kushner, the president's son-in-law and senior adviser stepping down earlier this year. obviously "the wall street journal" reported that. cnn has some reporting lending some credence to that as well and sarah sanders is saying, no that didn't happen. now there were other comments she made on the russian probe and i don't want to overlook that. this was plaerly stunning because typically you don't hear this from a white house. a white house would stay out of an investigation, a criminal investigation like the russian probe b tu white house press secretary there during the briefing said, yes, perhaps the justice department should look at whether the former fb i i director who was fired by jim comey should be put under investigation. that was a fairly stunning statement to hear from the white house press secretary. typically you don't hear from that the podium and interview room. possibly it's because of hearing it on "60 minutes." the last two briefings today and yesterday, sarah sanders at thi
she certainly did seem to knock down the notion that there was this conversation about jared kushner, the president's son-in-law and senior adviser stepping down earlier this year. obviously "the wall street journal" reported that. cnn has some reporting lending some credence to that as well and sarah sanders is saying, no that didn't happen. now there were other comments she made on the russian probe and i don't want to overlook that. this was plaerly stunning because typically you...
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jared kushner has to know better. and they will go after this. kennedy: on social media if you say anything negative about hillary clinton people come after you. she is the one who wrote a book and she is on a media tour and she is the one who won't stop harping on these issues. how self-aware is she? >> she is a zero on the self-aware. this is not the right issue for her. kennedy: all she has to do is look where republicans have taken issue with the president. and that's where you start. people aren't dumb. that's why a lot of them didn't vote for her. i understand she won by 3 million vote. but not where it counted. she didn't win in the states where people saw past the flimsy excuses because they want a better life. rich: you look at al gore, he lost a heartbreaking race. he went away, grew a beard and did something else. he did some things i don't like, but he tried to be a productive citizen. kennedy: same with jimmy carter building houses. the nfl national anthem controversy has become a dumpster fire. and today none other than hillary clin
jared kushner has to know better. and they will go after this. kennedy: on social media if you say anything negative about hillary clinton people come after you. she is the one who wrote a book and she is on a media tour and she is the one who won't stop harping on these issues. how self-aware is she? >> she is a zero on the self-aware. this is not the right issue for her. kennedy: all she has to do is look where republicans have taken issue with the president. and that's where you start....
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earlier this week, cnn reported that jared kushner, the president's senior advisor and son-in-law had used his personal e-mail account for official white house business. cnn breaking the story now that kushner had not disclosed the existence of this personal e-mail account to the senate intelligence committee and the senators who head that committee are not pleased they learned of the existence of this e-mail account from the media. cnn is exclusively reporting right now this morning, the chairman of the committee, richard burr and the vice chairman, mark warner, sent a letter to kushner through his attorney instructing kushner to make sure he has turned over every relevant document to the committee including those from his quote, personal e-mail account describinged in the news media as well as all over accounts, messaging apps, or similar communications channels you may have used or that may contain information relevant to our inquiry, unquote, in the statement to cnn, kushner's attorney says it is perfectly normal that the committees would want to make sure they received all pertin
earlier this week, cnn reported that jared kushner, the president's senior advisor and son-in-law had used his personal e-mail account for official white house business. cnn breaking the story now that kushner had not disclosed the existence of this personal e-mail account to the senate intelligence committee and the senators who head that committee are not pleased they learned of the existence of this e-mail account from the media. cnn is exclusively reporting right now this morning, the...